How to get to Portovenere. Updated 2024

HOW TO ARRIVE TO PORTOVENERE

- 1. By car
- 2. By train and bus
- 3. By boat
- 4. By plane

1. How to get to Portovenere by car
Portovenere is located on the western tip of the Gulf of Poets, reachable by land only from La Spezia by car. It is preceded by two small sea village: Fezzano and Le Grazie. As in the Cinque Terre, the main problem is parking in Portovenere.
Arriving by car is quite simple, the motorway exit is La Spezia-Santo Stefano Magra, on the A12-A15. From the toll booth you have to keep left taking the SS370 up to La Spezia, about 10 km away. Pass Via Carducci following the road left onto Viale Italia, then right in front of the arsenal, where it becomes Viale Amendola. At the traffic light at the end, turn left, the signs already indicate Portovenere and the Cinque Terre. You pass the football stadium and at the traffic lights you have to take a slight descent on the left on Via Fieschi (while going straight up you continue towards the Cinque Terre). The road leads in 10 km to Portovenere, passing through Marola, Cadimare, Fezzano and Le Grazie.

Average travel times from Portovenere to the Cinque Terre villages by car:
Portovenere - La Spezia: 20 minutes, 13 km
Portovenere - Riomaggiore: 35 minutes, 24 km
Portovenere - Manarola: 35 minutes, 25 km
Portovenere - Corniglia: 1 hour, 37 km
Portovenere - Vernazza: 1 hour, 36 km
Portovenere - Monterosso: 1 hour and 5 minutes, 44 km
Portovenere - Levanto: 1 hour and 15 minutes, 45 km

Other average travel times to the main locations, kilometer distance, estimated motorway toll cost, estimated fuel cost:

- Milan-Portovenere: 3 hours and 10 minutes, 245 km, toll 19 euros, fuel 25 euros
- Milan Linate-Portovenere: 3 hours and 10 minutes, 235 km, toll 22 euros, fuel 28 euros
- Milan Malpensa-Portovenere: 3 hours and 30 minutes, 290 km, toll € 23, fuel € 30
- Milano Centrale-Portovenere: 3 hours and 20 minutes, 240 km, toll 22 euros, fuel 28 euros

- Turin-Portovenere: 3 hours and 40 minutes, 285 km, toll 24 euros, fuel 29 euros
- Turin Caselle-Portovenere: 3 hours and 45 minutes, 315 km, toll 24 euros, fuel 34 euros

- Genoa-Portovenere: 2 hours, 110 km, toll 8 euros, fuel 13 euros
- Genoa airport-Portovenere: 2 hours, 120 km, toll 9 euros, fuel 14 euros

- Pisa-Portovenere: 1 hour and 30 minutes, 95 km, toll 8 euros, fuel 11 euros
- Pisa airport-Portovenere: 1 hour and 30 minutes, 95 km, toll 8 euros, fuel 11 euros

- Florence-Portovenere: 2 hours and 10 minutes, 165 km, 14 euro toll, 18 euro fuel
- Florence airport-Portovenere: 2 hours, 160 km, toll € 30, fuel € 16

- Bologna-Portovenere: 3 hours, 245 km, toll 22 euros, fuel 24 euros

- Venice-Portovenere: 4 hours and 40 minutes, 395 km, toll 33 euros, fuel 37 euros
- Venice airport-Portovenere: 4 hours and 10 minutes, 400 km, toll 33 euros, fuel 37 euros

- Rome-Portovenere: 4 hours and 45 minutes, 445 km, toll 33 euros, fuel 43 euros

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Departures from Levanto, Deiva Marina and Moneglia (click to enlarge):

Departures from Marina di Carrara, Marina di Massa and Versilia (click to enlarge):

Cinque Terre boat timetables
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4. How to get to Portovenere by plane
The closest airports to Portovenere are in Pisa, about 95 km away, from where you can take the train or rent a car. Or the Genoa airport, about 120 km away, a two-hour drive along the A10 Genoa-Ventimiglia, A7 Milan-Genoa and A12 Genoa-Livorno, and then proceed as indicated.

For those arriving further away, the best-served airport is Milan Malpensa, about 290 km away, 3 hours and 30 minutes taking the Malpensa SS336 highway, the A4 at the Marcallo-Mesero tollbooth to the Ghisolfa barrier after Rho, the west ring road towards Genoa-Bologna, the A1 in Melegnano and finally the A15 up to La Spezia.
By train, on the other hand, a bus service or the Malpensa Express train takes you to the central station.